nótt

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See also: nott, Notts, Nott, nött, nőtt, and nǫ́tt

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse nǫ́tt, nótt, nátt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Latin nox.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nouʰt/
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  • Rhymes: -ouht

Noun

nótt f (genitive singular nætur, nominative plural nætur)

  1. night
    Ég vakti fram á nótt
    I woke up at night.

Declension

The original stem is nátt- (<*naht-), preserved in the genitive plural (although the forms nótta, nóttanna now also exist) and in all stem compounds (e.g. nátthrafn). The -ó- comes from earlier -ǫ́-, created by u-mutation of -á-, a vowel change that is no longer productive.

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

merging of nasalized ǫ́ and ó

Pronunciation

Noun

nótt f (genitive nætr, plural nætr)

  1. later form of nǫ́tt (night)